Alan Michael Canfora was a student at Kent State University, Ohio when he was shot and wounded in the right wrist by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while protesting the invasion of Cambodia. It is estimated that Canfora was 225 feet away from the Guardsman who shot him with a military issue M1 Garand. Canfora suffered a gunshot wound with entry and exit wounds. Four students were killed in the shootings, which led to protests on college campuses throughout the United States, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Just five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the war. Ten days after the shootings, two more people were shot and killed on the campus of Jackson State University in Mississippi. The police were brought onto the Jackson State campus because authorities feared that protests over the Kent State shootings could turn into riots. Canfora was one of nine students injured in the shootings at Kent State that day. 

August 21st, 1949 in   /  Died:   Dec 20th, 2020 - chronic kidney disease, aged 71